AMD has been on the decline after Intel introduced its core 2 Duo line of processors. It has been late on 65 nm process and they are paying for that. They had the market under total control just one year ago, but now they have lost even their loyal customers. AMD has to produce something very powerful and should be done quickly or they will even lose the small share that they has got.
Coming to the processor, Athlon 64 X2 6000+ is a midrange processor to compete Intel in the midrange segment. It is powerful but not enough to beat Intel's counter parts.
I got this processor in the PC which my uncle gifted to me. So, I have got it free. If I were given a choice before it was gifted to me, I certainly would have asked for an Intel processor in the same price range.
Looking at the processor, we note that it's speed is 3 GHz. It has a decent amount of L2 cache (i.e 2MB). It fits in AMD's AM2 Socket. It is based on 90 nm manufacturing process. It is rated at a TDP of 125 watts. Boy that's very high. If you are looking to buy an energy efficient PC, don't even think of buying this processor.
The processor comes with a heatsink fan which is just OK. I have never even thought of overclocking the processor as I am afraid of frying the processor with stock heatsink fan.
I will not recommend this processor for the reason that you can easily buy a decent Intel processor in this price range which has better performance as compared to this processor.
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